Two weeks in the Exumas
The Exumas greeted us with crystal clear blue water; it was like we were floating in a massive swimming pool. We had motored due west for about five hours from Eleuthera and entered the Exuma island chain and the Exuma banks just north of Shroud Cay. The water is so clear that as we were coming onto soundings we could start seeing the bottom at 30 meters. It comes up quickly and soon we were in 5 meters of water, pointing out starfish, coral formations, and even small reef fish from the deck of PW. The Exuma islands are a long chain of small cays that run for over 100 nautical miles in a more or less north-south orientation, starting a little southeast of Nassau and ending at Great Exuma and George Town, the cruising hub of the Bahamas. We landed in Shroud Cay, near the northern end of the Exumas, specifically to paddle through the mangrove-lined waterways and visit the pristine beaches on the windward side. We continued to have little to no wind which was perfect conditions for explor